Hey Protectors!
This is our biggest update yet.
Every arena has been rebuilt with a roaring crowd, every run now has more going on.
Events in the middle of a round, kill streaks, a blessing at the end of every realm and your heroes have a whole new way to grow.
Here's the new trailer:
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New arenas, and a crowd that cheers you on
- The Wildlands are now an overgrown rune coliseum, and the Inferno a lava prison where you fight on an iron grate over glowing lava.
- Both arenas are half their old size, so the horde closes in faster.
- 192 monsters fill the stands of every arena, cheering, clapping and shaking their fists and the cheer grows louder as you get close to them.
- The south gates turn see-through around your hero, so you are never hidden behind them.
The Inferno fights back
Every Inferno boss and enemy has a new model, new animations and real attacks, with violet warnings that stand out against the lava.
- Imp Matriarch: teal meteors, a lash of teal fire, and a shriek that summons Cinder Imps.
- Marrow King: rows of bone spikes, bursting bone shards, and Skeletal Legionnaires rising from the ground.
- Hellhound Alpha pack: ice-cyan breath, pounces from a distance, and a howl that calls the pack.
- Ashen Warlord: a greatsword duelist who cleaves, charges and splits the ground around you.
- Infernal Lord, the Inferno's finale: hellfire meteors, the Worldbreaker hammer, a wide sweep and an Inferno Nova.
Every run plays differently now
- Mid-round events: a SWARM closes in from every side, an elite hunts you down, a Crystal Goblin runs off with your crystals (catch him!), or a glowing Shrine offers a rich reward and bites back.
- Kill streaks: chain your kills for Rampage!, Slaughter!, Unstoppable! and beyond, each with its own sting. Elite kills freeze the action for a beat, and boss kills slow time with a flash. Your best streak shows in Run Stats.
- Realm-end blessings: beat a realm's boss and choose one of three blessings that lasts the rest of your run more health, more damage, faster cooldowns, thorns, an extra revive and more.
Grow your hero
- A new Skill Tree: your hero's skills on a grid, linked by synergies that make both skills hit harder. Fill a skill and it evolves into its next tier. Every hero has six new skills of their own.
- Awakened weapons: max out a weapon, collect the two cards its recipe asks for, and your next weapon drop offers to AWAKEN it into something far more dangerous. Every weapon can awaken.
- The Build page (B) is a character sheet now: your hero on a dais, weapons in sockets, every card you've taken, your Awakening recipes, and your blessings and relics.
- The end screen tells you how close you are to your next Skill Tree unlock.
A fresh look
- New gold frames for You Died, Round Cleared, Realm Protected, the Pause menu and every warning box.
- Run Stats opens in its own frame beside the results.
- A redrawn first-time guide, plus short tips the first time you level up, find a weapon, beat an elite and meet a boss.
Co-op and controllers
- In co-op, the Build page, Skill Tree, Card Codex and How to Play open in your own half of the screen, so both players can browse at once.
- Every button on every page can be reached with a controller, and the realm portal can be skipped with A.
Fixed
- Thrown and shot enemy attacks now fly straight at you.
- A downed Mage collapses again in co-op.
- A drifting thumbstick no longer makes the mouse look dead.
In the full game
- Mayhem mode: take on mutators, a faster horde, tougher enemies, more elites, Boss Rush and more, one before the first round and another every realm. Each one makes the run harder and pays more crystals.
- Today's Challenge: every day, a hero and two mutators, the same for everyone. Pick your game mode and difficulty and take your one attempt, no revive, for +50% crystals.
- The Necropolis and the Yokai Lands are reborn, with new arenas, crowds, and every boss and enemy rebuilt with real attacks from Anubis's Judgement to Yama's Underworld Nova.
- The Rogue and the Archer have new models and animations, and find weapons of their own: Knives Vortex, Shadow Strike, Venom Pool, Multishot, Arrow Rain and Piercing Shot.
We want to hear from you! So much of this update came straight from your feedback. If something feels off, a bug got in your way, or there's something you'd love to see, tell us in the Steam discussions or with the Report a Bug button on the main menu. We read everything.
The demo updates automatically through Steam. If you enjoy it, adding Realm Protectors to your wishlist helps more than you'd think. Thank you for protecting the realms!